Settle, petals. Nobody's really asking to limit the discussion, just to put it in a place where it can be slightly more appropriate. For the sake of peace, it's best to keep poem threads on track and directly relating to the poem itself -- when a discussion grows larger than the original post, we really need to split it so that it can wander more freely.
Ray, you've only been here a little while and we love you, but the critique threads are really only intended for workshopping a specific poem. Further discussions should go on elsewhere -- nobody's suggesting that they're invalid or unwelcome, and there's nothing elementary about a good workshop. In fact, they're the hardest thing on the internet to find.
rbl, please accept our apologies -- this discussion is all very interesting but the moderators really should have stepped in earlier and shifted the more philosophical points to Poetry Discussion. /admin
Ray, you've only been here a little while and we love you, but the critique threads are really only intended for workshopping a specific poem. Further discussions should go on elsewhere -- nobody's suggesting that they're invalid or unwelcome, and there's nothing elementary about a good workshop. In fact, they're the hardest thing on the internet to find.
rbl, please accept our apologies -- this discussion is all very interesting but the moderators really should have stepped in earlier and shifted the more philosophical points to Poetry Discussion. /admin
It could be worse